Randall Adams Trial (1977):
 Selected Links & Bibliography
by Douglas O. Linder


Randall Dale Adams,victim of a wrongful conviction

LINKS:

Randall Dale Adams (Center on Wrongful Convictions, Northwestern University)
http://www.law.northwestern.edu/wrongfulconvictions/exonerations/txAdamsSummary.html

The Thin Blue Line, a Documentary (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thin_Blue_Line_(documentary)

Randall Dale Adams (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_Dale_Adams

"Recrossing the Thin Blue Line," Time Magazine (April 3, 1989)
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,957378,00.html

The Thin Blue Line, Questions for Discussion (Philosophical Films)
http://www.philfilms.utm.edu/1/thin.htm

Adams versus the Death Penalty
http://www.truthinjustice.org/adams.htm


David Harris, The Actual Murderer


Additional Reading:

Adams, Randall Dale, with William Hoffer and Marilyn Mona Hoffer, Adams v. Texas/The True Story Made Famous by the Highly Acclaimed Film The Thin Blue Line, St. Martin's Press, 1991.

Radelet, Michael L., Hugo Adam Bedau and Constance E. Putnam. In Spite of Innocence/The Ordeal of 400 Americans Wrongly Convicted of Crimes Punishable by Death, Northeastern University Press, 1992.


Scene from the Movie The Thin Blue Line (depicting Murder of Officer Wood)
Cases:

Adams v. Texas, 448 US 38 (1980)

Adams v. Texas, 624 S.W.2d 568 (1981)

Ex Parte Adams, 768 S.W.2d 281 (1989)

Harris v. Texas, 784 S.W.2d 5 (1989)






Video:

The Thin Blue Line.  Errol Morris, director. (1988)(103 minutes).